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I got very lucky about then when my father got his work to pay for bonded ISDN to our house in the middle of nowhere. Being able to connect to BBSes at 128kbit was insane.

But the big thing with ISDN and the internet was the latency. A bunch of mudding friends brought over their computers all the time since they could suddenly play with a latency almost as good as the older kids who played from their university dorms.

Evergreen is the shipping line which owns the ship. I guess they name their ships Ever <something>.

Its tricky to compare debt between countries since it works differently.

In Sweden you can't 'walk away' from your mortgage like in the US for example. This means its much safer for the bank to lend money and that interest rates are very low. Swedish mortgage default rates are very low.

What seems to have happened is that Centurylinks internal routing has collapsed in some way. But they're still announcing all routes and they don't stop announcing routes when other ISPs tag their routes not to be exported by Centurylink.

So as other providers shut down their links to Centurylink to save themselves the outgoing packets towards centurylink travel to some part of the world where links are not shut down yet.

IKEA had their payment system go down worldwide also. I really doubt that uses Cloudflare.

I think its unlikely SpaceX will have an IPO. Elon likely wants to maintain as much control as possible until he gets to Mars. Spinning of Starlink makes sense once its up and running.

The Firefox bug report for a websocket message inspector was opened 7 years ago. It took 6 years before it got implemented.

Its no wonder they lost marketshare among developers.

It appears to be a backend primarily for illegal iptv services. Which probably can be used for legal stuff also, but the feature set is all there for stream proxying.

Boeing is one of few companies using program accounting. Won't this kind of slump drastically cut the number of planes they can distribute their development costs over for the 787 and 737 Max projects also?

Those records probably pointed to an ip or a CNAME which was not registered or not under microsoft control. But some more information on that mistake would have been nice.

I live in a universal health care country. I also had a private health insurance thru my employer which guaranteed specialist care within a certain time.

The universal health care means that the extra insurance was not very expensive at all since it only covered the speedy access part. If you have money capitalism will always ensure you have speedy access to healthcare.

Considering how popular unpolarized plugs are all over the world I don't think a fused neutral is much of a problem in a lamp.

This trick is what caused me to click and Ad for the first time in forever. If the icons happen to be dark its easy to ignore the 'Ad' text. Maybe its time to supply a complaint. I doubt this is legal in Sweden.

I don't think you can draw any conclusions at all from this. They appear to have measured how far it is from their CDN pops to the anycast instances of the TLDs.

Edit: I see what they did. They picked a random nameserver for each TLD. This means that those using only anycast servers win as they always hit the same POP. .org uses only some anycast instances.

I wonder if anything is using URL.equals to check for 'safe' urls. Some creative use of DNS TTL could probably make things interesting.

Considering 900 drives out of 1800 crashed in HP computers at a Swedish hospital in the last few months I suspect there is a connection.

Maybe HP and HPE were more tightly connected 3 years, 270 days 8 hours ago.

As a consultant I found that you don't even have to follow the hierarchy. You know you won't be at a company forever so just ignore those who are likely to obstruct and skip the hierarchy. And once you have backing from higher up there is little lower levels can do to obstruct your invoices.

But my experience is from Sweden so maybe it only works in Scandinavia.

While this patch from @intel.com looks bad i wonder what has AMD been doing in the meantime? Atleast intel appears to have someone looking at Glibc performance.

GTM is something which shouldn't exist in the first place. Adding a script to your website is something that should be going through your usual release process.

But avoiding that release process is also the reason why some deparments usually want GTM. It allows them to give GTM access to other people who can then inject stuff into your site. Once you have GTM you can let marketing / ad agencies add their own tracking points and other fun stuff to your site quickly. This unfortunately sounds like a great idea to marketing people.

I didn't realize quite how bad it's become until I recently set up a small static site for a relatives two person business.

They had no web presence and a very unique name. The site quickly became the first result for a search on the company name in Bing and DDG. On Google its on page 3, behind all the auto generated business directories filled with google ads. Google has picked up all the Schema.org information from the site and indexed that and is using it in Google Maps.

My conclusion is that Google now gathers information for internal use. But only wants to share that information when it gets paid for it with ad views.

Just the fact that you can't cast your own local content when the mothership is down makes me want to throw out all cast devices. Ignoring DNS servers seems like a very minor issue.

The latest message appears to be:

"We are validating the consistency of information across all data stores. Webhooks and Pages builds remain paused."

Which is a bit scary. Half my requests appear to hit some storage which is still many hours behind. They should be seeing that...

Modern mills are impressive! SCA Tunadal does 200 meters logs per minute. With multiple laser/xray scanners for optimal cuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y81eWz2YqZM

Yeah, there is so much wrong going on with that road. The divider warning sign is also lower than a standard car.

I've also given up on OSM due to all the toxic territorial mappers. The idea that the real world might have changed since they last biked through the area unfortunately eludes many of the kind of people attracted to OSM.

GDPR is something completely different.

The cookie law was an email from compliance with something like. 'Oh, and by the way we need a cookie warning. Please fix it.' GDPR begun with mandatory briefings for all employees (not just IT) a year ago and the projects spawned have been going full steam since then.

Even in a complete compromise of banks systems you are not going to be able to run off with all their money.

You need to get your transactions into the batches somehow. And the batch needs to still pass all automated checks. Then you need to stay under the limits set for the bank on the correspondent account at the other bank / clearing house.

Banks know this and really don't have nearly good enough security practices for running a bitcoin exchange..

The big plus for Chrome Apps for me was that the store made it possible to actually get new users for your apps. For organizations without $ this was useful as a good app would get good visibility once it had a lot of happy users and got good reviews. This was probably a good thing both for users and developers.

Now we instead have to pay Google for ads to get visibility for our PWA. Now we're probably going to turn to Facebook and try to get some traction there.. From one evil walled garden into the next!

This is one of those cases where responsible disclosure just means you're doing the job one of apples automated tests should be doing.

The script was for a yearly user survey run by a small company. It has an awards ceremony attached so I think thats why some marketing people like it. After the survey ended the script was not removed of course.

Around a year later the site changed color when their script started injecting a new stylesheet into our site. They never really said what happened only that they had restored the old version of the script. Maybe some developer pushed dev code to the old production url or maybe they were hacked.